Sentences with phrase «own coalmine»

The Fitbit anxiety is just the «canary in the coalmine,» an early symptom of the bigger problem.

I'm not sure even Facebook quite understands that — they are the canary in that coalmine.»

Unlike the sad fate of the coalmine canary, who perished at the earliest indications of trouble, our credit canary is singing with renewed vigor as demand for its services rises as the poison in the credit atmosphere intensifies.

English scientist John Scott Haldane was the first to introduce canaries into coalmines in the 1890s.

Those who must navigate an uncertain market understandably seek out their own coalmine canaries.

In many ways Iceland is the tip of the iceberg — the proverbial canary in the coalmine showing the need to better cope with over-indebted economies.

Qualcomm Ventures is likely the canary in the coalmine for the amount of waste and pet projects there are at Qualcomm.

That is how teenagers fit the role as the canary in the coalmine when they smell death and wasted life.

Elsewhere there are people trying to grow pinot noir, sometimes called wine's canary in the coalmine as it tolerates a narrower band of temperatures.

It is created in that way in order that materials could be conveyed under coalmine walls.

Baroness Blackstone: «Probably the best part of the trip was the visit to the Landau open - cast coalmine.

Named after labour and national service minister Ernest Bevin, the Bevin Boys were tasked to work in Britain's coalmines between 1943 and 1948.

«This is really, to me, a canary in the coalmine for Governor Cuomo for 2018,» said Cox.

«Trout are one of the best indicators of healthy river ecosystems; they're the aquatic version of the canary in the coalmine,» says NRDC's Theo Spencer.

The agency says a 2006 law mandated that coalmines install wireless communications and electronic tracking systems underground, which positioning systems could use to broadcast the whereabouts of stranded miners.

Watershed groups near Pittsburgh, for instance, know to look out for discharge from old coalmines, which wouldn't be a factor in other parts of the state.

Corals are the canary in the coalmine for this planetKit Drake responds to our report of an unprecedented fourth...

In Jharia, famous for its rich coal resources, 700,000 people are exposed to toxic smoke that seeps from the ground as fires from opencast coalmines burn around the clock.

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He said: «Tropical glaciers are the canaries in the coalmine for our global climate system, as they integrate and respond to most of the key climatological variables — temperature, precipitation, cloudiness, humidity and radiation.»

Julie has learned that children with autism are the «canaries in the coalmine,» informing us that we have too many toxins and nutrient deficiency that have affected our genetic expression, as well as exposure to environmental triggers that are harming the development of our children as well as our health.

It is created in that way in order that materials could be conveyed under coalmine walls.

The canary in the coalmine is still singing, at least for now.

But by the time the third local yokel makes the same crack, it becomes the canary in the coalmine of a tonally incoherent dark - comedy - drama that doesn't have a clue how to manage its weighty themes and discordant plot.

So I'm happy to let Gen - Y be the canary in the coalmine and sniff out things like The Room and Birdemic, the much - hyped new «worst movies of all time.»

She made only one fiction feature, the coalmining drama Blue Scar, set in south - west Wales.

What is a coalmine canary?

Test scores are the canary in the coalmine at Auer Avenue and dozens of schools like Auer.

Our ethnic minority and economically disadvantaged students were the canaries in the coalmine showing us how high stakes testing diminishes educational quality.

Not only is this big news for General Motors, but can also be seen as the canary in the coalmine for other truckmakers.

Thus it owned and operated all the coalmines, fixed coal prices to its own benefit and was able to establish its own standards - or lack of - for employee treatment and compensation.

The swift erosion of this cornerstone of short term lending for banks and companies is a canary in a coalmine for the economy, analysts said.

Shelters are the proverbial canary in the coalmine for their communities.

Companion animals and their diet - related diseases are the proverbial canaries in the coalmine and guinea pigs in market - testing laboratories.

Adani is an Indian mining corporation proposing to dig a giant coalmine in the Galilee basin, Queensland.

A journey into the Blue Mountains by rail allows you to travel on the superb Katoomba Scenic railroad, which was originally built to service a coalmine located in the Jamison Valley.

Domoic acid intoxication of sea lions: a renewed need for the canary in the coalmine.

Also near Bayswater power station and coalmines.

Singleton has a lot to offer with its location being only a short 20 minutes from the vineyards and attractions such as the Military Museum, coalmine tours and National Parks.

The former of these works was commissioned by the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen — a gallery set in one of Germany's coalmining regions — and appears as a huge mound of black coal, interspersed with red diodes, which is encircled by another part of the commission — Time Train to the Holocaust (2008).

Featuring members of the Snowdown Colliery Male Voice Choir, the work memorialises a Kentish coalmine through the former miners» vocal embodiment of memory.

And we would do well to heed their creative alarm — after all, Theresa Bayer said it best: «Artists are the proverbial canaries in the coalmine.

Lucas Lenglet's solo exhibitions include Das Haus Goethe, with Suzanne van de Ven, Goethe Institut Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2012); No cage, invaliden1, Berlin, Germany (2011); A canary in a coalmine, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2008); Carte Blanch au Commissariat: Lucas Lenglet - Inaccessibility and Hierarchic Connectors, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2007).

For the piece, Karikis asked the Snowdown Colliery Male Voice Choir to vocalise the industrial sounds of a former coalmine based on their memories.

From Moore's «black period» inspired by his coalmining drawings and two drawings he owned by Seurat.

Known as «the black drawings», this period is inspired by his experiences drawing in the coalmines in the 1940s and two Seurat drawings in his collection.

«This is and was a memorable moment for the mine workers in Limburg, which forces us to remember the 100 years of coalmining in Europe, the social struggle of the coal miners and to acknowledge the impact the closure of coalmining and the conversion processes afterwards had on our current industrial and social changes and structures,» Hedwig Fijen, Director of Manifesta, told A.i.A. via email.

These works of art utilize pigments generated by remediating toxic streams polluted by coalmine runoff.

They may be the proverbial «canaries in the coalmine» of our ocean.

Individual species in trouble were said to be early warning signals, like canaries in coalmines, or small but essential, like rivets in airplanes — the works and windings of natural systems, which no sane tinkerer would cast aside.